This UNGA@80 side event featured the launch of the Future of International Cooperation Report 2025 (FIC’25), focusing on advancing justice beyond promises to concrete progress. It explores collective global and regional action to close justice gaps within and between countries and highlights bold policy and institutional reforms aimed at reducing inequality, underdevelopment, and injustice. The dialogue will contribute directly to preparations for the Second World Summit for Social Development (November 4–6, 2025, in Doha) and enrich debates at the Doha Forum 2025 (December 6–7).

Speaking directly to the World Social Summit’s focus on poverty eradication, full and productive employment and decent work for all, and social inclusion—as well as follow-through to the recently convened Summit of the Future and Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development—FIC’25 examines the multiple dimensions of justice across distinct regions worldwide, including its political-judicial, socioeconomic, and environmental characteristics. At the same time, the report gives ample attention to creative and bold policy and institutional reform proposals—particularly at global and regional levels of governance—for reducing high and avoidable levels of injustice (and associated levels of inequality and underdevelopment) within and between countries. A just and sustainable future in line with the outcomes of the World Social Summit requires rethinking governance, fostering inclusive societies, and leveraging innovation to bridge these divides